Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Draft Decision for the Plenum of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) onOrganising the Work of the Secretariat

Written:Written April 3, 1922Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

      Printed from the manuscript.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 42,

      page413.2.Translated:Bernard IsaacsTranscription\Markup:R. CymbalaandD. WaltersPublic Domain:Lenin Internet Archive (2000).You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit “Marxists Internet Archive” as your source.

TheC.C. directs the Secretariat to strictly fix and adhere
to the schedule of official reception hours and to publish it; the
secretaries are to make it a rule not to personally undertake any work
other than major tasks of a principled nature, and to turn such work over
to their assistants and technical secretaries.

ComradeStalin is directed to immediately find himself deputies and
assistants relieving him of work (other than general management and
guidance of a principled nature) in government offices.

TheC.C. directs the Orgbureau and the Politbureau to submit within a
fortnight a list of candidates for members of the Board and deputy
commissars of the Workers’ and Peasants’

Inspection.{1}

{1}The C.C. plenum on April 3, 1922, adopted this draft with the following
addendum:

“... in order that Comrade Stalin may he completely released from work in
the Workers’ and Peasants’ Inspection.” Following the plenum’s decision to
appoint Stalin General Secretary of the C.C. of the R.C.P., he was relieved
of his duties as People’s Commissar of the Workers’ and Peasants’
Inspection under a decision of the Council of People’s Commissars dated
April 25, 1922.